Grandma McKay had a long career as a dancer and costume/set designer for the Burlington Footnotes dance company from 2001-2009. She held several roles within the company such as dancer, set designer, script writer, and member of the board. She toured to Japan with the company in 2005. The document analyzes her career and creative process through scientific lenses like the art cycle, physics of creativity, and chaos theory to derive how her unusual upbringing may have led to her creative abilities. It concludes that she had a fun, rewarding and happy life through dance.

2. Grandma McKay’s Career as a
Dancer
As explained by an Engineer

3. Denise McKay (a.k.a Denny, Den,
Mum, Grandma)
Background Facts:
• 2001- Dancer in the Burlington Footnotes: Jazz,
Tap and Clogging
• 2002- Became the Company’s set designer
• 2003-2004 Wrote a pair of ambitious scripts for
the dance company’s performances
• 2004-2009 Created a Narrative Dancing Clown
group for the Company
• 2005-2008 Member of the BFSPT Board
• 2005 - Went to Japan as one of twelve dancers
with the Company
• 2008 - Became one of three costume designers
for the Company

4. Lab Equipment Used
• Unknown to Mum, she has been wearing a
hidden Biometric combination telemetry GPS-
based monitor, that has allowed our Engineers
to study Mum’s behaviour for many years.

6. Observation: The Art Cycle
Inspiration
& Dreams
Been there Initial
done that Learning
– Need by Doing-
new outlet it-yourself
A master
among
School Don’t Like
your
contempor. School
Years of
getting it
right

8. A Scientific Analysis of Mum’s
Emotions during a Typical Production

9. Observation: Physics of Creativity
Forces
Internal Creative Forces building External View of Resolved Forces
up Taking Place
Negative
A Compromise is
Energy is
Assumed
Released
Mum’s Rosemaries’
Mum’s Rosemarie’s Assumptions Go Assumptions
Opinions Opinions Left Go Right

11. How she did get this way? Hypothesis:
Lived Unusual
Born in
near Lead Creative
Trail BC
Smelter Ability

12. Derived: Chaos Theory for Dancers
?
From an Orderly System To a Chaotic System
Dancer
Dancer 3**
1*
Dancer 4**
Dancer
2*
Dancer 3*
Dancer 5**
* Consistently Attended Rehearsals ** Skipped Rehearsals to Watch D with the S

13. Reverse Chaos Theory for Dancers
From the Chaotic System Back to an Orderly System
Dancer 2** Dancer
1*
Dancer 3** Dancer
2*
Dancer 3*
Dancer 1**
** Acting as if nothing is out of the norm * Lucky thing the audience doesn’t
know the difference

14. Conclusion: A fun, rewarding and
happy life

15. Next up: for Dad
• The Steel Making Process, as interpreted in a
dance solo